The realms after the sixth-order True Immortal are actually: Immortal Lord, Immortal Venerable, Immortal Emperor, Demigod, and True God.
Fang Xiu doubted that he had seen it wrong. Although a mere seventh-order being would be a world-destroying existence in the modern world, it was still unreasonable to divide the seventh-order into three realms: Immortal Lord, Immortal Venerable, and Immortal Emperor.
"Kunlun maggots, was this how realms were divided in ancient times? Or did the Nine Provinces change it on their own?"
Kunlun Maggot replied, "My lord, this is how it was divided in ancient times. Are you wondering why there are separate titles for the early, middle, and late stages of the seventh rank?"
Fang Xiu gave a soft "hmm".
"Actually, my lord, you don't need to take the division of realms too seriously. The so-called division of realms is a division made by humans. Humans have selfish desires, and even those who have become gods are no exception."
In ancient times, the seventh rank was Immortal Lord, the eighth rank was Immortal Venerable, and the ninth rank was Immortal Emperor. However, later, the ninth-rank powerhouses believed that they should be superior to others and how could they use the title of Immortal with others? This is indeed true, after all, the gap between the ninth rank and the eighth rank is too huge, and becoming a god and not becoming a god are two different concepts.
Therefore, the ninth-tier powerhouse created a new word, namely, God, to distinguish it from Immortal.
The ninth-tier powerhouses called themselves gods, which displeased the eighth-tier powerhouses. They also looked down on the seventh-tier, believing that advancing from the seventh to the eighth tier was a qualitative leap. In addition, they also wanted to get closer to the ninth tier, so they called themselves demigods to glorify themselves.
The seventh-tier powerhouses realized that the eighth and ninth tiers wouldn't include him, and calling him a demigod didn't sound good either, so they reclassified all the previous Immortal Venerables and Immortal Emperors as seventh-tier.
Fang Xiu: "......."
He truly hadn't expected that the division of realms in ancient times was so arbitrary.
But thinking about it carefully, aren't rules made by people? A ninth-level true god already has the power to make rules at will, and can call them whatever he wants.
"My lord, it doesn't really matter how the seven ranks are divided, because starting from the seventh rank, each small level of the same realm is a qualitative change. Take the seventh rank as an example, the way to advance to the seventh rank is to condense a law and inscribe the law on the spiritual body, that is, the immortal body."
It sounds simple to be able to condense a single decree and be called a Celestial Lord, but in reality it is not, because it is extremely difficult to completely condense a single decree.
A single decree is composed of 129,600 Dao traces, which are the traces of the Great Dao.
Advancing to the level of Immortal Venerable requires condensing thirty-six decrees, while advancing to the level of Immortal Emperor requires condensing one hundred and eight decrees. The time span involved is enormous, and many True Immortals who have advanced to the level of Immortal Lord find it difficult to advance any further in their entire lives.
The process of solidifying a law is like painting; it requires drawing 129,600 lines to solidify a single law.
Even if drawing a single Dao mark takes a day, condensing a single decree takes 129,600 days, or over 300 years. Condensing 36 decrees to advance to the Immortal Venerable realm takes over 10,000 years, not to mention the Immortal Emperor realm.
Hearing this, Fang Xiu had a somewhat vague understanding of the seventh rank.
Laws are like chips in the modern world, made up of countless microcircuits connected together, and the traces of the Way are the individual circuits within them.
When countless microcircuits are combined in a specific way to form a chip, it possesses the power to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, which is the seventh order.
"Is the eighth rank also an accumulation of laws and decrees?"
"Becoming a demigod is even more complicated, because to become a demigod, one needs not ordinary laws, but divine laws."
"The laws of the gods?" Fang Xiu's heart stirred slightly. He recalled the several laws he had obtained from the God of Evil: the laws of the angels, the laws of the gluttonous beast, and the unformed laws of the Black Lotus of the Other Shore.
"This old servant cannot explain what the divine law is, but it is certainly something far beyond ordinary laws."
Far exceeding ordinary chips? Lithography machine? 1 nanometer? Or even smaller?
"Are the angelic commands within me divine commands?"
"Yes, my lord, but your decrees are not created from nothing by themselves, but rather outlined with lines of the Way. They are more like a defective product, having only form but no spirit, and can only exert partial efficacy."
However, the existence of these flawed divine decrees is a great thing. Ordinary Immortal Emperors who want to advance to demigods need to go to great lengths to condense divine decrees, but you already have the prototype of divine decrees, which can be said to have saved you the most troublesome step.
Fang Xiu nodded calmly. Becoming a demigod was not enough to make him happy, because even a demigod could not take revenge.
What he wants to do most right now is to break through to the sixth rank.
Watching the Chronicles of Kyushu is just to get a general understanding of the situation in Kyushu. If you want to break through, you still have to wait for the full moon and try the Moon in the Well.
The Well Moon has the effect of purifying power. He guessed that it might be because he had devoured too many strange things, resulting in his power being strong but too impure, just like a cultivator who has taken too many pills. Perhaps after purifying his power, he might be able to advance to the next level more easily.
Three days have passed in the blink of an eye.
For the past three days, Fang Xiu has been traveling back and forth between the Scripture Pavilion and the Xuan Yue Palace, doing nothing but reading. The current Palace Master, Yun Qingwu, has already granted him the highest level of authority, allowing him to freely roam the entire Xu Yue Palace, including important places like the Scripture Pavilion.
The key point is that Yun Qingwu felt that restricting one god was useless, since the other party already knew about the Moon Wheel, and the entire Void Moon Palace was practically without any secrets. Rather than guarding a pile of junk as if it were a treasure, it would be better to open it up to the true god and win some favor.
The entire Sutra Repository has seven floors. The floors above the third floor are no longer open to ordinary disciples, and only the Palace Master can enter the seventh floor. However, Fang Xiu can view all of these floors at will.
His act of reading the scriptures did not arouse Yun Qingwu's suspicion. Yun Qingwu simply assumed that the true god wanted to look for traces of his existence in the books and to retrieve his memories.
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